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H. W. MESSER.

SHIRT. No. 268,424. Patented Deo. 5, 1882.

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HORACE W. MESSER, OF TROY, NEW YORK, ASSIGNOR OF TWTO-THllRDS TO MANVILLE 8U CLARK, OF SAME PLAGE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No..268,424, dated December 5, 1882.

Application led December 19, 1851.

To all whom it 'may concern.'

Be it known that I, HORACE W. MEssER,` of the city of Troy, county ot' Rensselaer, and State of New York, have invented a new and 5` useful Improvement in Bosom-Shirts, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to bosom-shirts, and a manner of making the bosom automatically adjustable to the motion of the body when 1o worn. y Y

My invention consists in the combination, with ashirt-front andashirt which opens at the back and hasat. the front a continuous neckband, ot' a bosom that is unattached to the 15 shirt-front proper, but which at each of its sides has stayingpieces, which connect the bosom with the side sleeve-seams and the lower sides of theyoke where the latter joins the sleeves, the object being to usea shirt-bosom 2o Which Will be secured to neck ofthe wearer by an attached collar alone, and the bosom left free for automatical vertical adjustment to the motion ofthe body.

The accompanying drawing, forming a part z5 ot' this specitcation, illustrates bosom-shirts' containing my invention, and the several parts .as made and combined to produce it are indicated -by letter-reference, and described as follows:

The letter E designates the body proper of the shirt at its front; B, the bosom C O, the side staying-pieces, which are each attached `to the side of the bosom and to the sleeve-seam S, and theloweryoke-seam, S. The letter A indi- 35 cates the yoke; N', the neckband of the shirt; N, the bosom necltband, the neckbandof the shirt being shown by a dotted line at Y, where continued down below the bosom neckband.

The letter T indicates a bosom-tab, and F a (No model.)

button upon the shirt-body for attaching the 4o bosom to the shirt, when desired.- The bosom B is free from the shirt-front proper through out its whole length, and is only connected with the shirt indirectly by means of the side facingor staying pieces, before described. The 4 top of the bosom is tree from the shirt-front proper, as relatively shown in my application for a patent for a similar improvement, tiled September 21, 1881, but differs from that in the fact that the bosom proper is wholly unattached to the shirt-front, and that no tabs are used on the bosom neckband to connect with the neckband ofthe shirt at the sides ot' the band, and also in the fact that the bosom herein is secured as against a free vertical as 55 well as horizontal adjustment by connecting' the attached facing` to the sleevesearn and the yoke-seam on an angle.

The bosom thus made and arranged will adapt itself to the use of a longer or shorter ec collar, and the latter, When attached to the bosom neckband at the front, will keep the latter in place and leave the bosom free to ad- V just itself to the motions of the body..

' Having thus described my invention, what I 65 i claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, 1s- The combination, with the body of shirtprnvided with a button at F, of the bosom B with the bosom neckband N", side staying-pieces', 7o C G,and bosom-tab T, attached to the body ot' the shirt, in the manner as described. l

Signed at Troy, N. Y., this 9th day of December, 1881.

HORACE `W. MESSER. Witnesses:

E. M. SCHWAB, Y

GEO. S. DEXTER. 

